I've been dreading potty training my almost 3 year old for a long time. I hated the thought of cleaning up after his accidents. I would go through phases of training/ no training and gave up easily. When I first had the drive to train my son I got the Munchkin training seat ($35) from Target. But it ended up being used as a step stool to get fun stuff off the counter. So that was a waste.
With my next attempt, I purchased the Sesame Street toilet seat ($15). He enjoyed that because he loves Elmo and liked looking at the characters and letters. It made going to the potty fun. But when he wasn't getting consistent, I gave up.
Recently, however, he started getting irritated and uncomfortable with his diaper and made several attempts to remove it. After one particularly nasty diaper change (yuck!) I decided to just take the plunge and let him roam diaper-less. He was happy; I was anxious!
I rolled up the rugs and we already had waterproof mattress pads. I started taking him to the bathroom every hour on the dot. Then I slowly increased the time to two hours and so on. After 3-4 days he got the hang of it but still had an occasional accident. Now after a week of consistency, he's doing much better but I'm still afraid to roll out the rugs again. I'll give him a few more days (or weeks!)
